[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 126 (Monday, July 1, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39295-39296]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-15565]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-13-0733]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to [email protected]. Send written comments 
to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 
20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received 
within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    CDC Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Hearing Screening and 
Follow-up Survey (OMB No. 0920-0733, Expiration 06/30/2013)--
Reinstatement with Change--National Center on Birth Defects and 
Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities 
at CDC promotes the health of babies, children, and adults with 
disabilities. As part of these efforts the Center is actively involved 
in addressing hearing loss (HL) among newborns and infants. HL is a 
common birth defect that affects approximately 12,000 infants each year 
and, when left undetected, can result in developmental delays. As 
awareness about infant HL increases, so does the demand for accurate 
information about rates of screening, referral, loss to follow-up, and 
prevalence. This information is important for helping to ensure infants 
and children are receiving recommended screening and follow-up 
services, documenting the occurrence of differing degrees of HL among 
infants, and assessing progress towards national goals. These data will 
also assist state Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) 
programs with quality improvement activities and provide information 
that will be helpful in assessing the impact of federal initiatives. 
The public will be able to access this information via the CDC EHDI Web 
site (www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/hearingloss/ehdi-data.html).
    Given the lack of a standardized and readily accessible source of 
data, the CDC EHDI program developed a survey to be used annually that 
utilizes uniform definitions to collect aggregate, standardized EHDI 
data from states and territories. The request to complete this survey 
is planned to be disseminated to respondents via an email, which will 
include a summary of the request and other relevant information. Minor 
changes to this survey, based on respondent feedback, are planned in 
order to make the survey easier to complete and further improve data 
quality. These changes include splitting the previously combined 
question about the number of infants that were non-residents or moved 
out of jurisdiction into two separate questions and adding new 
questions. These include questions about how many infants were in a 
neonatal intensive care unit for more than 5 days, transferred without 
any documentation of a hearing screening, unable to be screened or 
receive diagnostic testing due to a medical reason, number of cases 
where a primary care physician did not refer an infant for diagnostic 
testing, and cases of permanent hearing loss among non-resident 
infants. The table for reporting type and severity of hearing loss data 
has also been updated so this data can be reported using either the 
classification system from the American Speech and Hearing Association 
or the current system from the Directors of Speech and Language 
Programs in State Health and Welfare Agencies.
    A total of 59 respondents will be asked to complete the updated 
data request each year during the 3-year requested data collection 
approval timeframe. Based on findings from the previous information 
collection, it is estimated that the burden for individuals to read 
through the survey and decide whether or not to complete it is 10 
minutes per person. The 10 minute calculation was based on feedback 
received in pre-tests with 5 individuals and confirmed by the 
experience with the survey since the original Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) approval.
    It is expected that 55 of the 59 potential respondents will 
complete the survey and therefore incur an additional burden of up to 4 
hours per respondent. However, based on feedback from consulted experts 
about the length of time required to complete the original information 
collection, it is anticipated that it will only take some respondents a 
few minutes to complete the revised data request. This is because 
jurisdictions often have already gathered and compiled the requested 
data for their own internal uses. Nevertheless, the more conservative 
time estimate of 4 hours per response from each of the 55 anticipated 
participants is shown in the table below. This estimate is identical to 
the time estimate for the reinstated OMB approved estimate from 2010; 
the only change is the estimated number of respondents. There are no 
costs to the respondents other than their time. The estimated 
annualized burden is 230 hours.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                         Number of     Average
                                                                            Number of    responses    burden per
                Respondents                           Form name            respondents      per        response
                                                                                         respondent   (in hours)
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State and territory EHDI Program            Survey Directions............           59            1        10/60
 Coordinators.
State and territory EHDI Program            Survey.......................           55            1            4
 Coordinators.
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2013-15565 Filed 6-28-13; 8:45 am]
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